Jonathan Haidt
19 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 12 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jul 2, 2019 by Jonathan Haidt · said 13 times in 7 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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2018 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
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Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: Social media puts reputations on the line dishonestly, creating hell
“Because once we had social media, all the reputations are on the line all the time, but not in a consistent or honest way. That is anything you say can and will be distorted, taken out of context, used against you, so you better watch what you say. And we're f…”
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: Ages 8 to 12 are a critical window for unsupervised peer adventure
“And so from age eight to 12, I think, is a sensitive period where kids are supposed to have adventures with other kids they play all kinds of games, they self-organize, and what we've done is we've taken that critical period, and we've said, stop, you don't ge…”
Jul 2, 2019 neutral
Haidt: Humans evolved for group combat and confirmation bias, not truth-seeking
“If you're a homo sapien, you evolved for group combat, you evolved for confirmation bias and motivated reasoning. We're not really evolved to be academics or scientists searching for a truth in an unbiased way. We evolved to basically, you know, CYA and win in…”
Jul 2, 2019
Haidt: Fear of reputational damage is a primary driver of moral behavior
“And I was referring back to the story of the Ring of Gyges from Plato's Republic, in which Plato asks, if a man had the mythical Ring of Gyges, in which if you turn the stone, the, you know, the gem inwards on your hand, it makes you invisible. He asks what ma…”
Jul 2, 2019 positive
Haidt Predicts Overprotective Parenting Culture Will Reverse as Mental Health Data Spreads
“And that's why I'm actually optimistic that this is going to change, because as I said, two years ago, we didn't know the suicide stats. We didn't know the terrible things that are happening. It's only in the last year or two that it's really become public kno…”
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: Test-Focused Childhoods Produce Youth Lacking Key Innovation Skills
“I think that we are changing the nature of childhood, and we're too focused on skills that actually Don't matter as much. And what we're creating is a generation of people who do well on tests, but may not have the, may not develop, may not have a chance to de…”
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Jul 2, 2019
Haidt: Human morality relies on five innate evolutionary foundations
“The five best candidates for being the taste buds of the moral sense, or the moral foundations were, Care, you know, care and compassion because we're mammals. We nurture our young. Fairness, reciprocity versus cheating. We're all sensitive to that. Loyalty, y…”
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: Academic freedom ended because out-of-context tweets trigger severe public backlash
“For academics, I, you know, we used to be able to be provocative, and in academic seminars and at conferences, we could be provocative. We could raise hypotheses that could even be, you know, upsetting to some people. But that kind of ended in the last few yea…”
Jul 2, 2019
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: University administrators reflexively surrender to student demands for emotional safety
“It leads to an attitude in which everyone is afraid to judge on a case-by-case basis, and the response is pretty much always to give the students what they want. So individual professors do that. Administrators do that. And so if students are saying that somet…”
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: Bureaucracy and metrics strangle judgment and rob society of wisdom
“Teachers, doctors used to have much more leeway to exercise common sense, and then they could learn from feedback and they could develop skills of judgment. But the kind of the bureaucratizing mindset, the increasing use of metrics has led us to in a sense, st…”
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: Unsupervised outdoor play shifted from age 6 to ages 10–14
“And people who were born before 1982, the answer is always six plus or minus a year. We used to always let kids out outside with other kids at the age of six or seven, and then I ask just kids born after 1995, and the answer is usually between 10 and 14.”
Jul 2, 2019 positive
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Haidt: Adolescent mood disorders surged beginning in 2011, especially among girls
“What they show is a big rise in depression and anxiety only. There's no change in bipolar disorder, schizophrenia no other category. It's just mood disorder, so depression and anxiety. It begins going up around 20 11. It goes up steadily and sharply. It goes, …”
Jul 2, 2019 negative
Sep 17, 2019 neutral
Sep 7, 2021 negative
Simkin: Call-out culture incentivizes finger-pointing regardless of expertise
“The big problem with call out culture is that we're rewarding people just for the call out. That it doesn't matter what their other behavior it is. It doesn't matter what other positions they have, what knowledge they have, what expertise they have. They just …”